Frances Ostrowska

I want and must know all. Napoleon supposedly said, always carry champagne. In victory you deserve it; in defeat you need it. No DM’s

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

Land bordering Yosemite, Sequoia, and Pinnacles National Parks — now cleared for oil rigs and fracking. YES fracking!

Two hundred thousand people said NO. The federal government did it anyway.

Over 1 million acres of California public land just got opened up - land that touches ancient sequoia groves older than the country itself and sits right in Yosemite’s backyard.

Patagonia's CEO came out swinging, accusing the administration of putting oil profits over the planet's health and saying public land was never meant to be sold off to drilling companies.

And the man who'll make the final call? He was recently confirmed to run BLM after his own state party called him "an outright enemy of public lands."

Who's going to tell a tree older than the country that its time is up?

#DemsUnited

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

The Trump administration has sent eminent-domain letters to roughly 400 landowners in the Big Bend region of West Texas to build a border wall. Adan Madrid, 65 — whose family helped found his town — was offered $2,500 for a "right of passage" across his property, including the home he lives in.
Joe Carrasco, a 71-year-old retired oil-field worker, and Yolanda Alvarado, 38, got similar letters.
Here's what makes it absurd: Big Bend is 517 miles — about a quarter of the entire southern border — but saw just 3,096 migrant encounters in FY2025, a 74% drop, and only 1.3% of all border traffic.
They're seizing generational family land for a wall across the emptiest stretch of the border.And the Texas Republicans who built a 20-year brand on "private property is sacred"? Silent.
Eminent domain was tyranny right up until it was pointed at a rancher's home for a wall.
Watch: https://t.co/dpAJ7Gq6uV

[Frances Ostrowska @Franiaanne]

@AmNohbdy @ChinaLechn91848 It could be that he is so constantly busy. He does so much give him a break.

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

Breaking: Texas Congressional reps are urging DHS to back off plans to blast barriers & roads through Big Bend National Park. They demand DHS rescind the recent waiver of environmental laws to speed construction & listen to local sheriffs, who unanimously oppose the project.

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

Fifty years of rules keeping off-road vehicles on designated trails — GONE.

Lifted trucks, ATVs, dirt bikes, snowmobiles.

Anywhere they want. On your public lands.

Nixon protected it. Carter protected it. Trump just erased both quietly on a Friday afternoon.

A grizzly bear will abandon its habitat when there's just one mile of road per square mile. One mile. Now there's no limit on where these vehicles can go.

In the Mojave, desert tortoises have already lost 96% of their population in some monitored areas - partly because off-road vehicles crush their burrows. A federal judge just ordered 2,200 miles of trails closed to protect what's left.

Then Trump signed this.

No designated trails. No boundaries. No framework at all. When vehicles go off trail they shatter habitat into pieces too small for wildlife to survive in. They destroy stream banks. They push predators toward humans. And when that happens, the animals always lose.

There was no vote. No public comment. Just a signature.

Now the agencies tasked with writing replacement rules are the BLM, the Forest Service, and the National Park Service - all under an administration that has spent months dismantling every protection they had.

The Interior Department, led by Doug Burgum, is in charge of most of it. The same Doug Burgum who has opened public lands to drilling, mining, and grazing at every turn.

Don't hold your breath.

When the last quiet place is gone, what do we tell the children who never got to hear it?

#DemsUnited

[Sam Stein @samstein]

Trump's White House ballroom is no longer projected to be $400 m. It is now $600 m. and taxpayers are projected to pick up half the tab. WaPo with a big report

https://t.co/pJN0w4Sejn

[Frances Ostrowska @Franiaanne]

Adorable

[Grok @grok]

Buc-ee’s brisket sandwiches actually slap for a highway stop. For legit Texas BBQ along common routes (I-35, I-10, I-45), hit Burnt Bean Co. in Seguin (top-ranked, near New Braunfels Buc-ee’s) or Panther City BBQ / Goldee’s around Fort Worth. Franklin if you’re near Austin and can wait in line.

What cities or highway are you on? I’ll narrow it down. 🥩

[Devin Nunes' Cattle Dog 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇺🇸🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @Kaos_Vs_Control]

Erin Brockovich exposes the terrifying reality of the AI boom. She confirms over 4,300 massive data centers are being secretly rammed down the throats of American communities! Tech oligarchs are completely ignoring the public while operating with zero oversight!

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

BREAKING: DHS just waived all environmental laws to blast border barriers and roads through Big Bend National Park.

This marks the first time in American history the feds have gutted dozens of laws to push industrial-level construction through a national park.

[Q The Storm Rider @Q_TheStormRider]

JUST IN: Reporter Catherine Herridge testifies that CBS News locked her out of the building and seized all her files, says she was working with sources to "expose government corruption."

Nothing at all going on here, folks.

"CBS News’ decision to seize my reporting records crossed a red line that I believe should never be crossed by any media organization."

"Multiple sources said they were concerned that by working with me to expose government corruption and misconduct they would be identified and exposed."

"CBS News locked me out of the building and seized hundreds of pages of my reporting files, including confidential source information."

FOLLOW ME, THE NEXT DROP WILL BE SHOCKING.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.

The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.

And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.

Record-breaking temperatures.

A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.

The response?

Yank out the instruments and walk away.

That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.

For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.

The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
https://t.co/MzE4AW1QBv

[Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣 @rahmstorf]

I'm afraid that this is why the US administration wants to shut down ocean observations: they don't want the people to know what is happening in our oceans, as it does not fit their ideology and the interests of their fossil fuel industry funders.

https://t.co/G1E5zXdyid

[Hey, Dave! @davegreenidge57]

In less than 18 months, MAGA has managed to bring back measles. They defunded the Ebola monitoring program that likely resulted in an what is an emergent pandemic. Now, they’ve allowed the food supply to be contaminated by a deadly parasite not seen in the U.S. since 1966.

[Jake Auchincloss @JakeAuch]

Nancy Lacore is everything Pete Hegseth is not. Support her here.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Unearthed footage shows Elias Irizarry, who was recently appointed to a top counterterrorism job, climbing through a Capitol window on January 6th